Chapter Summaries

Odin’s group investigated recent writing on the Dark Continent, established a guarded campsite, and discussed how to build a human foothold there. The chapter left them beginning their nightly cultivation as Odin planned to develop Netero, Ging, and other promising Hunters rather than rush to the nearby settlement.

• Piyon and Netero examined writing on the rocks, and Knov photographed it while asking whether anyone lived nearby.
• Ging chose an open area near the river for camp, and Odin’s group cleared the site, set up tents, and established watches and an electric fence.
• Odin told Netero he could pursue the enormous Magical Beasts if he wished, but Netero chose to help establish a foothold first.
• Odin advised Netero to reach the Golden Core realm before confronting the Magical Beasts and decided to cultivate potential generals such as Netero, Ging, and Kurapika.
• After night fell, the group ate and began cultivating beneath the stars.

Odin planned to use Twin Perfect Hands to etch Nen Script meridians into human genes so future generations would be born with them. The group crossed a strange grassland and reached a valley where Ponzu’s bees sensed danger, while Odin deliberately led them there to see a gaseous life-form.

• Odin told Ponzu he intended to etch Nen Script meridians into human genes using Twin Perfect Hands, and nearby listeners reacted with astonishment.
• Odin reflected on the Dark Continent’s vast size, powerful inhabitants, and varied uses of Nen as he studied Twin Perfect Hands.
• The group left camp after breakfast and crossed a tall-grass plain, where Morel’s smoke shield calmed the staff after unseen creatures followed them.
• The group reached a narrow, silent valley with scorched stones, and Ponzu said the bees in her hat were afraid.
• Odin continued toward the valley because he wanted to see the gaseous life-form there.

Odin led Ponzu, Knov, Netero, and Ging into the valley and used Mind Meters to protect them from Ai’s mental interference. At the valley’s depths, they found the enormous gaseous life-form, which appeared to shrink away from Odin’s gaze.

• Strange energy in the valley affected the group, so Odin handed out Mind Meters to keep them from losing control.
• Odin and Ponzu helped the group recover, then Odin led Ponzu, Knov, Netero, and Ging into the valley while the others retreated.
• As they went deeper, the mental interference grew stronger, forcing Ponzu, Knov, Netero, and Ging to hold their Mind Meter hands at twelve.
• The group reached a ten-meter mass of black mist, and Netero identified it as Ai, though it was much larger than the creature he had encountered before.
• Knov speculated that Ai could split into copies, and Odin warned Ging not to release his Mind Meter hand.
• Odin noticed Ai struggling to contract under his gaze, and Ging and Netero wondered whether it was afraid.

Odin took a portion of Ai and led the expedition out of the valley, then guided the group across the Dark Continent until everyone reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. As the expedition continued, Odin learned the principles behind Kurapika’s Nen-stealing ability and tried to use it to awaken the staff, who chose to focus on cultivation instead.

• Ai forced a clump of mist to go with Odin, who turned it into a card and left the valley with Netero and the others.
• Odin led the expedition onward, using its journey as training while the Hunters guarded the staff and scouted for danger.
• Odin had the expedition cultivate daily with plentiful food and a Spirit-Gathering Formation, and everyone reached the Foundation Establishment Realm within a few months.
• Kurapika found that Foundation Establishment had restored his lost lifespan and improved his Index Finger Steal Chain.
• Odin copied Kurapika’s technique and discovered that it sealed Nen abilities while his Nen learned to reproduce them.
• Odin attempted to awaken Nen in the staff, but they could barely maintain Ten, so they focused on immortal cultivation and hoped to reach the Golden Core Realm.

Odin flew the party to a settlement deep in the forest, where they encountered humans and beastfolk who spoke a different language. After using a card to communicate, Odin and the others followed a local leader into the settlement and sat down to meet its residents.

• Odin used his aura and the Rabbit Talisman to fly the party nearly nine thousand kilometers to a forest clearing in about ninety seconds.
• Odin led the party through the forest to a settlement, where Ging spotted several unfamiliar races and buildings.
• At the settlement entrance, Piyon failed to communicate with three guards until Odin used a card to speak their language.
• A local leader led Odin and the party through the settlement as its adult residents watched them.
• The group reached a firepit in the settlement center, where a beastman eating meat gestured for Odin to sit.

Odin’s group learned that the beastmen wanted to capture them and sell them as elves, so Odin ordered the Hunters to fight back. Kanzai and the others quickly overwhelmed the mercenaries, leaving the gathering place full of defeated opponents.

• A beastman called Odin and his companions elves and revealed that the mercenaries planned to capture them for profit.
• Odin told the Hunters to handle the attackers and leave a few alive, and Kanzai charged the tiger-headed beastman.
• Kanzai knocked the tiger-headed beastman unconscious with one punch despite his claim to be a gold warrior.
• When a fox-headed beastman tried to stab Kanzai with a poisoned dagger, Kanzai caught it, broke the attacker’s knee, and knocked him out.
• Morel, Knuckle, Shoot, Ponzu, and Leorio used their abilities to incapacitate the mercenaries around them.

After Odin’s group defeated a band of mercenaries who mistook them for elves, Odin learned that the locals captured people as slaves and ordered exploration suspended. He decided the group would establish a base and resume exploring only after reaching the golden core realm.

• Odin’s group defeated dozens of mercenaries in under three minutes while the others protected the researchers.
• Odin questioned Gru and learned the mercenaries raided caravans, hunted Magical Beasts, and captured slaves for a nearby city’s slave market.
• Odin explained that people would keep targeting them as valuable elves and said they could not safely continue exploring.
• Odin ordered Knov, Knuckle, and Leorio to imprison the mercenaries in a Hide and Seek room.
• Odin told the group to establish a base and suspend all operations until they reached the golden core realm, disappointing Ging.

Odin’s group learned about the nearby cities and slave trade, then established a secure camp as their base. After Ging surveyed the area, Odin ordered them to build a city and set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation to help everyone cultivate.

• Mizaistom reported that Anvil City was ruled by Bazel and relied on slavery and caravan trade, while Knov asked what to do with the captured mercenaries.
• Odin sent the mercenaries to Ai as food, and Ai devoured them.
• Morel’s workers used Odin’s building cards to turn the camp into a residential complex and began adding security measures.
• Ging returned from surveying the area, reported that giant wolves had attacked his team, and confirmed there were no other forces within thirty li.
• Odin chose the camp as their center, ordered Cheadle to build a city, and established a Spirit-Gathering Formation as Netero and Ging went to cultivate.

Odin and the camp continued cultivating while he kept their activities hidden from outsiders. When a caravan from Anvil City approached, Morel sent Purple Smoke Soldiers to drive it away, and the guards attacked them.

• Odin and Ponzu cultivated at the camp while Odin crafted artifacts and pills, and the Hunters and staff advanced rapidly with the Spirit-Gathering Formation's help.
• Morel told Odin that a caravan had arrived from the west, likely seeking the mercenaries who had not returned to Anvil City.
• Odin ordered Morel, Knuckle, and Shoot to drive the caravan away without exposing the camp.
• Morel's Purple Smoke Soldiers blocked the caravan, but its captain sent guards forward to test their strength.
• Morel directed the Purple Smoke Soldiers to attack the advancing guards.

Odin’s forces repelled a cavalry unit sent by a city lord, while Odin let Netero and Ging prepare to join the coming war. Netero and Ging returned to cultivation as Odin looked forward to facing stronger opponents.

• Odin’s purple smoke soldiers defeated the cavalrymen and guards, who abandoned their cargo and fled.
• Odin overheard the lead cavalryman explain that the city lord would care more about the Mercenary Corps’ goods than their lost shipment.
• Ponzu asked Odin whether they should strike first, and Odin said they would wait for their enemies to be ready.
• Morel’s expanded ability to create and precisely control purple smoke soldiers made him an army on his own.
• Ging and Netero asked to join the fighting, and Odin agreed while urging them to cultivate toward the Golden Core Realm.
• Netero and Ging hurried off to cultivate, while Ponzu reflected that she had finally caught up with them through her training.

Netero, Ging, and the others confronted a force led by a scar-faced man who demanded the mercenaries’ cargo. Morel’s purple smoke soldiers easily routed the cavalry, leaving Netero and Ging puzzled by how the people in this world used Nen.

• After a month of cultivation, Netero and the others prepared to meet a force approaching from the west, while Odin stayed at camp to test his chessboard artifact.
• The scar-faced commander demanded the mercenaries’ cargo, but Netero and Ging denied seeing it.
• The commander ordered his cavalry to attack, and Morel’s purple smoke soldiers dragged the riders from their horses and battered them down.
• Netero and Ging wondered why the locals seemed so weak, and Morel explained that their defenses only worked while they actively circulated their energy.
• Netero and the others realized the locals lacked techniques like Ten and wondered why their use of Nen was constrained by cultivation manuals.

Netero and Ging defeated Scarface’s forces, while Morel let the surviving logistics personnel return to Anvil City to report. Odin planned to use the conflict to train his troops, and the chapter ended with Bazel asking the messengers what had happened.

• Scarface led the infantry against Netero, who broke his sword and knocked him down, while Ging defeated the infantry.
• Morel let the logistics personnel go back to Anvil City with a warning for the city lord, and Knov gathered the wounded and supplies.
• Odin told Ponzu he expected the enemy to return with reinforcements so they could keep fighting and train the troops.
• Half a month later, the logistics personnel reached Anvil City, where Bazel asked them what had happened.

Bazel summoned the God of Light Church's Holy Inquisition Army to deal with the elves, and Red led its cavalry to confront Netero and the others. Morel's Purple Smoke Soldiers met the charge, while Netero and Ging prepared to face the Church's strongest fighters.

• Bazel learned that elves had arrived and, suspecting they had powerful allies, sent a rider to the God of Light Church for help.
• Three days later, Red and Archbishop Ansel arrived in Anvil City with one hundred cavalrymen and ordered the city lord to lead them to the elves.
• Odin detected the approaching force, and Netero, Ging, Morel, Knuckle, and Shoot went west to meet it; Netero and Ging played rock-paper-scissors to decide who would face Ansel.
• Red halted his cavalry fifty meters from Netero, confirmed the group included elves, then ordered his men to attack.
• Morel created two hundred Purple Smoke Soldiers, which pulled cavalrymen from their horses, but the Church's fighters proved tougher than the Golden Warriors.

Morel’s Purple Smoke Soldiers battled Red and the cavalrymen until Ansel dispersed them, then Ging overwhelmed Ansel in a fight. Ansel summoned the God of Light’s avatar, but Netero met its attack with the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, leaving the two giant figures facing off.

• Red charged into the battle and cut down Purple Smoke Soldiers, but Morel replenished them with smoke.
• Ansel used his staff’s light to disperse the Purple Smoke Soldiers, then fought Ging with beams and a shield.
• Ging dodged Ansel’s attacks and struck him hard enough to knock him down, prompting Ansel to identify him as a demigod.
• Ansel chanted an incantation and summoned the God of Light’s avatar, while Red ordered the cavalrymen to retreat.
• The God of Light’s avatar attacked Ging, but Netero summoned the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva and matched the avatar’s strike.

Netero defeated the God of Light's avatar in battle, forcing it to flee, while Ansel and Red retreated toward Anvil City. Ansel sent Red to warn the pope about the heretics, setting up a possible confrontation with stronger forces.

• Netero battered the God of Light's avatar with the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva until the avatar fired a beam that destroyed ten of its arms.
• Netero struck the avatar repeatedly, cracked its body, and forced it to flee into the clouds.
• Ansel collapsed in shock, and Red helped him up as the remaining cavalrymen prepared to retreat.
• Ansel told Red to return and warn the pope that heretics were present, and Red carried him toward Anvil City.
• Ging said the enemy might return with more Holy Domain experts or the pope, while Netero joked that the God of Light himself might come next.
• Red and the cavalry reached Anvil City, where the gates opened and pedestrians moved aside as Ansel's bloodied body lay across the horse.

After Ansel was carried to the Lord's Manor, Red reported that an elven demigod had defeated the God of Light's avatar. Three days later, the pope and a large force arrived at Elf City, where Netero confronted him as he began summoning a powerful spell.

• Red brought the gravely wounded Ansel to the Lord's Manor, where Ansel warned Bazel that the elves had demigods.
• Red contacted the Holy See and reported that an elven demigod had repelled the God of Light's avatar and wounded Ansel.
• Three days later, Odin spotted the pope's force approaching Elf City, and Netero, Ging, Morel, Knuckle, and Shoot went to meet them.
• The pope attacked Netero with beams of light, but Netero's 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva shattered them.
• The pope began chanting a spell, darkening the sky as he prepared to unleash his full strength.

Ging and Netero fought the God of Light after he appeared through a spatial gateway, while the god’s attacks failed to defeat either demigod. Netero’s Guanyin Bodhisattva knocked the God of Light into the ground, and the battle continued with the god firing a relentless barrage at him.

• The pope summoned the God of Light, who ignored him and targeted Netero and Ging.
• Ging punched apart the God of Light’s light projectile, then copied the attack and forced the god to block it with a shield.
• The God of Light unleashed a rotating barrage of light rays that injured his own followers, while Ging warned everyone to get down and Netero helped protect Morel and the others.
• Netero struck the God of Light into a crater with the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, but the god rose unharmed and demanded Netero’s name.
• The God of Light attacked Netero with beams and blades of light, and Netero’s Bodhisattva intercepted each strike as the god continued his barrage.

Netero fought the God of Light while Ging and the wounded followers watched from a distance. After the God of Light’s feather barrage destroyed eighty of the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva’s arms, Netero enlarged it and struck a sphere of concentrated light, ending the chapter in a massive explosion.

• Ging tried to approach the God of Light but retreated to a boulder after dodging several deadly light attacks.
• The Pope claimed the God of Light was testing their faith while Red and the kneeling clergy watched the battle in shock.
• Netero attacked through the God of Light’s defenses, but the god’s shield held against the barrage of palms.
• The God of Light fired thousands of feathers that pierced and destroyed eighty arms of the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• The God of Light formed a sphere of light surrounded by spinning feathers, and Netero enlarged the Bodhisattva before smashing the sphere and triggering a huge explosion.

Odin intervened when the God of Light overwhelmed Netero, copied his light-ball attack, and killed him. He took the God of Light’s divine spark and left for Elf City with Netero and Ging.

• The God of Light bombarded Netero with explosive balls of light, while his light form let him evade the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva’s attacks.
• Odin stepped in, caught the God of Light’s attacks, and recognized how the light balls were formed.
• Odin used the same attack against the God of Light, blasting through his chest and shattering his veil of light.
• Odin removed the God of Light’s divine spark, and the god rapidly withered into a skeleton and died.
• Odin left for Elf City with Netero and Ging, leaving Kurapika and the others to handle the church members.

Odin studied the crystal core and discovered it contained a fragment of the world’s light rule, while the Hunter Association planned for retaliation after the God of Light’s death. The chapter ended with Odin continuing his research and Ponzu cultivating in preparation for future danger.

• Odin examined the crystal core at home while Ponzu wondered whether it was a Godhead, and he told her not to rely on it to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kurapika briefed the Hunter Association on the God of Light Church’s leadership and losses, while Cheadle warned that the Church and other churches might retaliate.
• Morel reported that merchants had arrived from the south, and Cheadle allowed them to trade in the outer city.
• Netero proposed sending a message through the merchants, and Ging and Tiger left to arrange it, hoping to draw the chief gods to Elf City.
• Cheadle decided to release the prisoners, and the meeting hall dispersed.
• Odin discovered that the crystal core held a fragment of the light rule, while Ponzu returned to her room and began cultivating.